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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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